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BRAVERY OF IRISH-AMERICANS TOLD BY RETURNING COMRADES
B% JOHN McHUGH STUART, |
;ta Correspondent of the I. N. S.
ARIS, Sept. 13 (by mail.)—"“Will the
Irish fight?"’
The same old answer may be made.
They will. Tt can be made on the rec
ords of two {amous Irish- American regi
ments in ce. It is a record that
makes men of Irtsh blood hold their
heads high. It is a record that betters
the b test page of America’s most
glorious military annals.
These two regiments, one used to
be the old Ninth Massachusetts and
the other the Fighting Sixty-ninth of
New York, were in every bad scrap the
American Army has been in. The tales
of their prowess are just now filtering
back to Paris. They may be told be
cause the censor at headquarters has
now ruled that regiments mar be named
for their part in such fl(,ht ng as pre
ceded that on the River Vesle.
The Ninth and the Sixty-minth were
- in almost all of it. The story does not
come from official reports. It comes
from the lips of two men, one a doctor
in the Ninth and the other a chaplain
in the Sixty-ninth, who saw what they
, relate. These two have seen many sol
diers dle, They know what bravery and
courage and cheerfulness are.
Lieutenant Simon XKelleher, of the
Ninth, was in Paris today. He tells the
storfl of his boys. And most of the time
he either laughing, or tears invol
untarily creep out the corners of his
eyes and drop unashamed down his
browned cheeks,
Lieutenant Kelleher's storles show
that the Irish boys of his regiment, the
boys of Boston, Roxbury, Cambridge
and Charlestown, fought with the cool
courage that held the fire on Bunker
Hill uyntfl those Americans of an earlier
day "saw the whites of their eyes.”
Thez show that these boys—and most
of them were mere boys—died face to
the front, a grim smile on their lips,
fighting, doing their soldiers’ duty to
the last breath of ebbing life. Each
heartbeat of the all-too-few left throb
bed but to one purpose—to fight. No
man of the Ninth died, says Lieutenant
Kelleher, without taking toll and more
of enemy Jives with him.
Just now the name of these heroes
, Mmay not be mentioned. But “Kelly and |
Burke and Sea,” are there, all of them,
and many more. Lieutenant Kelleher
says nothing of his own gallantry. But
his stories show that he, too, served.
He was not called on for the supreme
sacrifice. But he offered his life a
thousand times on first aid dressing ex
ggdiuons to the farthest outposts and
yond.,
Wounded By Fighting.
*"T'd been tokdi there was a wounded
nman in an advanced traverse,” he says.
‘I crawled slowly up to get him. I
beard his labored breathing in the lulls
of the gunfire. And then I rounded the
cormer of the trench. There he sat,
propped against the wall. His breath
came in tearing gasps and with each
one the blood gushed from his chest;
for he had been shot through the lungs.
He was a boy I had known all my life.
* “They got you bad, Pack,’ I said, as
I tried to help him.
“ “They sure did, Sime,’ he replied,
“but looka there.”
“I followed the wave of the empty
p!stol be still held in his hand, and
here stretched across the opposite par
apet were six dead Germans, one for
every shot in his gun. They had got
him only when the gun had emptied. I
stodpped the bleeding as best I could
*and we got him back to an ambulance.
But he died four hours later. I guess
his life was well paid for.
*“lt was this same sharp raid of the
Germans that produced one of the cool
est bits of desperate courage I ever
' saw. One of our boys had been cap
tured by three Germans and he was be
ing led off as they retreated, one on
either side of him and one behind. Sud
denly one of our shells lit within a few
yards of the party. The three Germans
ducked. I thought at first our boy
had. Bnt no, he had reached into his
hip pocket. He dropped a hand gre
nade directly at his own feet and those
of his captors-—and the three Germans
were killed.
‘1 got there quickly afterward to'
where he lay. He smiled up at me. Yes,
he smiled, though his arm and half his
side had been blown off.
“'God! boy,” I said, horrified, ‘why
did you do that?"
“‘Saw me get 'em did you, Doc?
he answered.
“ ‘Yes, but’—l didn't know what to
say as I tried to dress that frightful
wound.
* “Well, doetor," he said, gravely. ‘l'd
been to communion this morning and I
guess 1 was ready to die. But I wasn't
ready to go to Germany. They searched
me for grenades when they got me, the
three of them, and they took those out
,0f my bag and out of my side pocket.
But I always carry one tucked into my
pants when T %n out here, just in case
of—well, anything like this.” And when
those three Germans ducked it came
through my mind a lot quicker than I
can tell it that three dead Germans
and one dead American was a lot more
on our side of the score than three live
Germans and an American as good as
dead in Berlin. So I let her go."”
“He tried to raise his head and dook
around.
“ Never mind, boy, you got them all,’
I assured him.
"“.\ny —any chance for me, doc?” he
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Wanted Mother to Know.
“I didn’'t answer and he knew, His
remaining hand crept beneath his
biood-soaked tunic, gripped something
tight and stayed there, After a mo
ment he spake again.
*“‘Doe,” he said, ‘vou know. all the
boys around our sguare. 1 wish they
could know I was game,
" ‘And, doe,’ his voice was weaker,
‘will you-—-will you tell my mother I
"had--1 had *his when~l went.’
“Slowly his hand came out; slowly
it opened: that hoy's hand strangely
old and worn with the bloodstains and
grime Slowly it opened and there ‘n
'the blackened palm glistened a tiny,
bright silver crucitix, He was dead
It's Chaplain Hanley who tells the
gtory of the Sixty-ninth, They refer to
the chaplain as hold:ng tha clerical rec
ord for mileage in No Man's Land. They
can't keep him off patrols, Chapla'n
Hanley knows the story of most of the
casualties of the Sixty-ninth. He sub
stantiates the stdtement that not a
man has been kilied or wounded by a
German bayonet, notwithstanding the
regiment has encountered 11 pitched and
open battle three of the five divisions
of the Prussian Guard at one time and
another of its career. Needless to say,
the Prussian Guard division can make
=0 such boast, Father Hanley says the
hardest time they have with casualties
n the Sixty-ninth is to make them stop
fighting when they're hit He is him
gelf fust recovering from a wounded
leg
“The officers are as bad ag the mon,"”
he declares. *“The day | got this wound
I was working up with Captain Hurley's
company They'd been driven vack a
little 1 a vicious German barrage and
they were on a little ridge. They'd got
orders to hold it, and they did, for four
days Whea they left it they went
ahead
Well, T was up there this day and
I heard of a wounded man ahead and
a little to one gide, just over the edge
of the hill toward the CGerman lines.
1 told the captain ['d-better go t him
and he wanted to detail a couple of men
to help € I declined and started off
by myself, crawling on my stomach un
derneath a stream of machine-gun bui
ets that wonld have clipped me had 1
ed ow my elbow
ol gone perhaps 060 yards when [
\ he 1 rustle in the grass behind me,
i e were two of Hurley hovs
. \ the iptain had sent them lo
1 ¢ back if anything happened
\ A on y the rest of it 1 sent them
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WALTER G. COOPER.
Waiter G. Cooper is the exact anti
thesis of the usual Chamber of Com
merce secretary.
Most of them constst oft Ome loud
voice, two loud suits, one elastic ex
pense account, and as many mileage
books as can be coaxed out of the treas
urer. They are always going some
where, usually in wide and exer-ex
panding circles. After a while they go
somewhere and do not come back.
Walter G. stays put. He is a booster,
but he does his boosting with work
instead of a megaphine. He lets the
volunteers, of which Atlanta has plen
ty, do the glad-handing and the song
leading. In fact Walter G. doesn’'t do
much of anything—execept work
A great deal of the really hard work
in the world is done by secretarles, any -
way. Look at the ringing statements
of the presidents; the excellent open let
ters to the public; the simply wonderful
compliations of detailed information
sent out over the signatures of the com
mittees. Who writes them? The sec
retaries. Especially Walter G. Cooper.
Who gets up the meetings, ararnges
the luncheons and dinners, frames up
the entertainments for visiting notables,
sees that there are automobiles for
worth-while strangers in our midst,
takes pains that the right type of home
folks meet the visitors? Who knows al
most all the information there is and
where to find out in fice minutes any
thing he doesn’t already know? Walter
G. Cooper. Whose name very rarely
gets into the papers, considering the
amount of news he provides? Walter G.
Cooper’s
Mr. Cooper spends nine-thenths of his
day in his office at the Chamber of
Commerce, around which radiates or
swirls almost everything worth while in
the way of public movements. The re
maining tenth is devoted to waiting for
a street car to his home in West End
and in preparing a paper to be read at
the next meeting of the Ten Club, of
which he is a tenth. And that paper, of
the several hundred he has signed that
week, alone carries the signatures
“By Walter G. Cooper.’
(SußsSCßing 7OR LIBEATY BoW®s)
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By U. S. Corporal
By HENRY G. WALES, :
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE CHAMPAGNE FRONT, Oct. ¢
(Night).—Thirty-two German prison
ers, including ten artillery officers,
were captured single-handed by Cor
poral Fred Hunnell, of Toledo, Ohio,
at Mont Blanc, on the Champagne
front.
Corporal Hunnell, who is 30 years
old, has been in the army less than a
year, being a salesman up to last
January. During the attack at Mont
Blanc Hunnell got lost from his de
tachment and while wandering around
discovered a dugout He called to the
inmates to come out. A German pri
vate, who spoke English, responded.
Hunnell told him to call out the oth
ers, but none came
The American, fearing a trap, start
ed to seek other Americans when he
came upon another exit from the dug
out A Prussian officer with a pistol
in his hand was just emerging
With his rifle at his shoulder, Hun
nell ordered the Prussian to drop the
pistol. Then he made the entire staff
of officers troop forth, dropping their
arms as they emerged They proved
to be an artillery staff consisting of a
major, three captains and six lieuten
ants The other 22 were privates.
Hunnell marched the bunch rearward
to the American lines 1
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chasing back to their cor pany and
crawleda ahead Just as 1 got to this
ridge the bullet got me My wounded
man was across aniopen space and 1
knew | couldn't get to him I was afraid
if I waited till dark I'd bleed to death, so
I put a tournquet on my leg and started
back.
Kept Injury Secret
“Now all of this is just preliminary
They got me back to a hospital a day
later and ll'd hardly got settled in my
cot when who should they put down in
the cot next to me but Captain Hurley
himself He was badly smashed up in
the leg, too The leg had been dressed
at the dressing station and when thes
got him settled they started to take off
his elothes As they pulled at hig shirt
he let out a how!
“The shirt was stuck to his chest with
blood He had a wound there that the
doctors at the dreseing station had never
discovered ’
' "Why, captain,’ sald the doctor, look-
Ing puzzied at the casualty tag, ‘it dan't
say anything abou the chest Wher
did you get this one?'
What day is this isked the Ap
tain
“ Wednesda said a 4 nurse
‘* *‘Now 166 said the apta
‘Chapla were up thers esterdayy
I must have got this on Monda
All the me he'd been sending mer
out t take ire of me he'd 1 that hols
in his ow hest i the } frozen
over | big he vit 8 owr ood
You're capta I s to hin
t wounds and get then red so
Y tayed up lere two dayve and ou
never even told me about it
‘Honest chaplair he ¢ o 1
forg Il about it You W We i
tc hang that din
At ve were awf )
Bicßin: ¥ KR BONT
By FRED J. BOLLMEYER,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
PARIS, Sept. 12 (by maill)—*"The
American public mar not know what
their aviators are doing in France, tfi‘t
they are performing wonderful work a
marvelous feats in the air. They are
in squadrons which form the eyes of
the American army; they are scattered
throughout the French escadrilles; they
are working with the British in north
ern France; they are with the Italians
on the Piave and in the mountains of
northern Italy.”
Fhe high American aviation official
who made this statement added that
while American aviation may or may
not have been slow in getting into ac
tion, it is more than making up now
for any loss of time. He declared that
this branch of the army is extending
so rapidly that it is almost impossible
for any one person to sum up its every
day achievements,
“‘Our aviators who are working on the
British front are In American army
squadrons of about eighteen men each,”
he said. ‘““Those with the French are
scattered. There may be ten of our
men with on escadrille, six in another,
and so on. Those on the [tallan front,
of course, are among the large nunber
who received their training on the
American aviation fields in Italy.
‘lt is the plan at present to train our
aviators in actual warfare In this way.
We send them to work with experi
enced, and I mifht say famous, esca
drilles of our Allies, and then as they
are needed to form new squadrons with
the American Army they are brought
back.
“And every day new American squad
rons are formed. The men themselves,
pilots and observers, can not be pralsed
too much. That they are accomplishing
'big things is shown by the pralse be
stowed upon them by all the ..ilies. The
French, with whom probably we have
the most, long ago recognized the fear
lessness of the American aviators when
that small band formed the Lafayette
escadrille.
“It is a pity that we can not tell
America of all the separate and indi
vidual deeds of our airmen, of their
chase work, their effective bombing of
‘German bases, towns and lines of com
'munication and their work as observ
ers,
‘ “But, (faduall{. the work of the air
service as a whole will be brought home
;to‘ dissipate any sort of the earlier crit
icism.”
‘ |:§ll§lll fox UEM' E!E
At School of Arms
| COLUMBUS, Oct. s.—Four hundred
regular army troops from Fort Bill, Okla
homa, have arrived here as the first
contingent of troops to the new infantry
school of arms being built here. They
were served breakfast by members of
‘the Red Cross Canteen Corps, following
which they marched to the tempornrx
camp which was to receive them, an
pitched tents. They stated this was the
first time since they had been in the
service that they had been shown any
attention by canteen corps and like or
ganizations, although they had seen
members of the National Army royally
treated.
Captain Albert Kindervarter, Lieuten
ant Willlam J. BStewart, Lieutenant
Dickerson and Y. M. C. A. Secretary K.
A. Darden were among ‘the officers ac
companylnl the men. Each of the men
is an expert in some line and practically
all of ther?bcommiuloned or noncommis
‘stoned officers.
~ They were much pleased with the city,
stating thal the water supply, ete., here
'was the best they had found in any of
' numerous cantonments where they had
been stationed.
__Colonel H. E. Eames, commandant of
Fort Sill, Lieutenant J. Paul Jones, of
the quartermaster construction depart
ment, and a number of other officers
have been in Columbus for the last two
weeks preparing for the removal of the
troops. The temporary camp, built to
accommodate a thousand men, was built
under the supervision of Major Jones in
six days. Other troops will follow
shortly.
The general contract has not been
awarded yet, as spvcmcauons have not
been cor:Jrleted, t has been officially
announc: from Washington that the
school will be bullt to accommodate 25,-
000 men, and that it will be permanent.
It will involve an expenditure of approx
imately $§14,000,000.
[SURACHisx Fou Liska7V_sowsi
For Robbing Mail
Louis C, Clark, an Atlanta malfl clerk,
in the United States District Court, be
fore Judge W. T. Newman Monday, was
sentenced to a year and a day in the
Federal penitentiary for making mon.y
from the mail. He pleaded guilty to
the charge,
A heavy docket was sounded at open-
Ing of the court, numerous cases charg
ing violation of the Federal liquor laws
and the vice code being called. Among
the cases were these.
J. Lee Hurst, of Campbell County,
tearing down rural mail boxes while
intoxicated, fined sl. W. M. Gilraath
Union County, pleaded to a charge of
distilling, fined S2OO and sentenced to
three months in the Fylton County jall.
Will Clements, Union County, pleaded
guilty to one of seven counts charg
ing working a still, sentenced to a
month in the Cobb County jajl; John
Payne, Pickens County, 'pleaded guilty
to distilling; John Fergerson, Towns
County, found not guilty of distilling;
Jack Mnrphy, ¥annin County, pleaded
guilty to a charge of transporting and
dealing in liquor.
[sUßscains FoR Linentr wowos)
(By International News Service.)
KANKAKEE, ILL., Oet, §.~lf hurglars
who entered the Farmers' State Bank nat
Buchanan, near here, recently had Roa
masks they night have made a hig haul
When they “eracked’ the safe with nitre
glycerine thev nlso broke a smnall hottle
of formaldehyde {inadvertently placed in
the vault I'he fumes which resulted wer
#o Intense the robbers were unable to got
to the safe and secured but little loot
Thousands of dollars were left un
touched
[Bubscain® Fou Cingnty powos
old Khaki Clothes
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Must Be Preserved
A ruling has been issued by the
quartermaster's corps that where gol
diers purchasing new clothing or equip
ment leave the old articleg at the store
where the purchase I 8 made, the store
must retain the articles and notify the
proper auth)rities so they may he eol
lected and put in condition for ising
again
[SUREERIDE voR LIRERTY BoWDS
{ ARMY ORDERS |
WARHINGTON, Oct. 8§ Muajor Herbert
o 0 Hiack medica corps, Camp Gordon
ordered to Camp Bherman; Captain Emil
Altman, medical corps, Camp Gordon, to
Fort Oglethorpe
Captain George W, Wilhit medical
Orps Fort il Houston ordered to
Camp Haneoel
iret Licutenant Maitlan olomor
t New Yor ordered to Fort
Appointnent ¢ I'hon Cobb Hill »
oo cutenant jusrtermastor orpe
nnour d report Camp Gordon
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Elder John Miles, the First of His Name
In the New World—Richard, Samuel
and Griffith, the Three Brothers
From Wales Who Established a Blg}
Branch of Their Famlly—Soldiers an
Clem"men of the Family—Their Cour- |
age—The Arms of the Miles Family.
By FRANCES COWLES.
The Miles family in America is to
day foremost among the great military
families of the country, and one might
naturally suppose that the ancestors of
‘these peo(ple would be strong and In
trepid soldiers and fighters. But so far
as the genealogist can trace their origin
they seem to have been men whose first
‘aim was the development of their high
est ideas of falth.
~ The name itself is derived from the
first name Mlles, one time a favorite
among the Engiish. This name, stil
[somefimes used in the Greek from Milo.
means ‘‘a crusper.” From the same
root we get our word mill.
The first man of the name in America
migrated apparently for religious rea
'sons. He was Elder John Miles, who
was born in 1621, and who at the age
of twenty-eight founded the first strict
~communion Baptist Church near Swan
'sea, on the south shore of Wales. Four
teen years later he, with some of his
‘brethren of the Baptist falth, emigrated
to America, and settled in Bristol Coun
ty, Massachusetts. The settlers called
‘their settlement Swansea, after the
Welsh settlement they had left.
In 1674, a year after his settlement at
Swansea, Elder Miles was teaching
'school im that place. He received a sal
ary of forty pounds a year for his serv
ices, which Included "teaching grammar,
rhetoric, arithmetic and the tongues of
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Also to read
English and to write.”
| 'fisu is all that is known of Elder
Miles, except that he was distinguished
for his learning and piety, was an In
fluential man in his church, and dled in
1683. But as the famous Indian massa
cre, which, though only a few whites
were killed, was the direct cause of King
Phlilip’'s War took place in Swansea in
1676, it is only natural to suppose that
Elder John had his pafls glay in those
stirring events. Wheth e fought or
not, the man who had led the little
party of settlers from their home in the
old country must have gone through
much anxiety and mn.n‘ hardships.
There were several other first settlers,
and all of them.seem to have been
Welsh., But just what the connection |
between them all was—for undoubtedly
some existed—still remains unknown.
Perhaps some enthusiastic genealogist
of the Miles family will some day trace
it out.
\ Probably the largest Miles family was
founded by the three Miles brothers—
Richard, Samuel and Griffith. They left
Wales in 1682 and settled In New York
State. Concerning the descendants of
Samuel, little {s known. Richard, it is
said, bous’ht his land before he left
Wales, and with his wife, Sarah, joined
the Great Valley Baptist Church, at
Great Valley, N. Y. He had the follow
lni children: Richard, James, FEvan,
John, Jane, Sarah, Hannah and Abigall.
Griffith, the youngest of the three
first-settler broghers, married, in 1862,
Bridget Edwards, in the Friends’ meet- '
ing house Later a serious controversy
broke oue among the Quakers and we
flnfiethnt Griffith and his wife Bridget
we dropped from the Friends' meet- |
ing and joined the Baptist Church, in !
which he evidently became a leader, for !
kis name frequently appears in Baptist l
annals of the time.
Griffith and Brldg'et Miles had six
children, Hester, artha, Margaret,
Griffith, Samuel and John, the first born
in 1693 and the Jast in 1709.
Among the articles mecntioned by
Griffith at the time of his death are
“six turkey-work ould chalrs,’” valued
at one pound, ten shillings,” “ten oth
er chairs,” valued at one pound, nine
shillings, six ditto, apparently of an in
ferfor variety, since they are rated at
only nine shillings, “earthenware and
glasses upon two mantlepieces at ten
shillings, sixteen half barrels of flower
in the house, eleven pounds.'
Griffith, the fourth child and eldest
son of Griffith and Bridget Mlles, was |
married ahout 1721. His ehildren were
three, Martha, Anne and Joseph. Joseph
was born in 1722 and married Ann Ne
smith, in 1750, in l'wladelphhr. She !
was a member of an old and honorable
Scoteh family. They had twelve chil
dren, the youngest of whom was bnrr”
{ust one month after the signing of the |
reclaration of Independence. ‘
Joseph possessed considerable wealth
at the time of his death. The inventory |
of his possessions shows, among other |
things, “Bible and Psalm Book, 2 can- !
dlesticks, thiree swarms of bees,” and
“Abraham, (the negro boy).” This
Abraham was, so the famlly say, the
last of his race ever owned by the Miles |
family, The twelve children of Joseph
and Ann Nesmith were Lucy, Lydia, !
Griffith, Margaret, Joseph, John, Thom- |
aB, Dorcas, Samuel, Jacob, Willlam and |
Ann. |
Griffith, the oldest son, was bhorn in'
1754, in huvks County, Pa He mar
ried Jane Beans, a woman of fine char
acter, and very popular with all her |
relatives and friends. She was widely |
known after her marriage as "Aum[
Jennie.'" Griffith served in the Revolu- |
tlonary War
Their children born hetween 1792
and 1800, were finno-. John, Lydla, Su
san and Griffith, who at the age of
thirty-five came Into possession of the
homestead. He died at the age of nine
tyv-four without helr in his own line, The
family, through other branchegy, is
widely distributed throughout Pennsyl- |
vania and other States of the Union
Besides Lieutenant General Nelson
Appleton Miles, who entered the armsy
a 8 a volunteer in 1881 and commanded
the army during the Spanish War In
1898, there have been other distin
gulshed soldiers of the family Briga
dier General Evan Mlles, of the Penn
sylvania famlily, also served with dis
tinction in both the Clvil and Spanish
Wars Another Civil War soldier was
Colonel Dixon 8, Miles, who was mor
tally wounded at Harper's Ferry. San
uel Miles, born in Pennsylvania, in 1740
served loyally in the Revolutionary Wi
and had the distinction of being one
of the first to espouse the cause of in
dependence
Among the distingulshed Miles me
who hanve not been warriors aure Richard
Plus Mliles born in Maryland in 1791 who
was a hithop of the Roman Catholic
Church and established the convent sos
Dominlean nuns in Springfrield, Ky
Henry Adolphus Miles, of Massachn
setts, a Unitarian clergyman: Jamey
Browning Miles, a clergyman 1 the
Congregational Church, and James War
ley Miles, an Episcopal clergyimnan of
South Carolina
If, as I& sometimes sald, it takes
something of the “same sort of cour
age and grit to make a good clergyman
Roman Catholie, Baptist, and nan
otherg-——can attest to the fact that tt
sort quf courage mingles with the Miles
bloo¢
The arms of the family are described
Gules two hends or. The crest is a den
lion supnorting «n anchor all proper
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MACON, Oct. B.—As the result of in
*urres ne recelved at Central Park, New
York City, while horseback riding Sun
day afternoon, Major James H. Blount,
formerly of Macon, dled vesterday.
Major Blount's horse wus struck by an
automobile and fell The major was
caught under the animal
Major Blount was born and reared in
Macon and graduated trom Mercer Uni
versity, Heo took part in the Spanish-
American war attaining the rank of first
lieutenant, Afterward he served as a
lurist lin the Philipine Islands
For years Major Blount practiced law
in Maton and left #ix years awo for
Washington, where he continued his
practice He received a commission in
ithe judge advocate's Jepartment whei
the United States entered the world
war His mother is Mrs ' James H
Blount, widow of Congreseman Blount,
and one of the bhest known women of
Macon, Others surviving are Mrs, Wal
ter D. Lamar, one of the most promi
nent society women of Macon, and Miss
Fannie Blount, sisters
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Workers 11l With ‘Flu’
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WASHINGTON, Oct B.—Five hun
dred civillan employees of the ordnance
bureau were reported ill with Spanish
influenza today.
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We would all welcome PEACE—the RETURN of our 1,840,000 soldier boys
from France—and would like to see our country settled back to NORMAL CONDI
TIONS.
But every red-blooded, sensible American citizen knows that these things
cannot be brought about UNTIL THE WAR IS WON—and it is NOT yet won.
We entered the great world's war seventeen months ago for reasons well
known and saisfactory to all. We would be UNFAITHFUL to our forefathers, to our
country and to ourselves if we did not throw into the battle EVERY RESOURCE of MEN
and MONEY NECESSARY TO WIN.
OUR ALLIES HAVE SUFFERED the brunt of the battle, which we now
realize was our fight, three years before we joined them. Their losses and sacrifices
have been TERRIFIC, but their COUARGE HAS NEVER FALTERED. Although we
have been in the war a year and a half, our total casualties have NOT been as many as
THE ENGLiSH HAVE SUFFERED IN THE LAST FOUR WEEKS.
Our great President has'made our intentions known to all the world and his
policies are APPROVED by every CIVILIZED Nation except Germany and Austria—
and THEIR civilization may well BE DOUBTED. <
But these two Nations still have many millions of men well equipped in
arms, faithfully following the HELLISH DICTATES of the Hohenzollerns and the Haps
burgs, who have joined forces to DOMINATE THE WORLD.
No peace can come until these armies are ANNIHILATED and their auto
cratic rulers TORN from their thrones.
The news from the battle front is encouraging and tells us that their defeat
has begun, but it has NOT YET been ACCOMPLISHED. ’
There will yet be many GREAT BATTLES and many months of TER
RIFIC FIGHTING before the day of VICTORY comes.
While our brave soldiers are baring their breasts to the bullets of the Hun
by day and being bombed by unseen demons of the air by night, we who sit in Comfort
at home are asked only to keep them supplied with food, clothing and ammunition.
WHILE THEY ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES AND SHEDDING
THEIR BLOOD, AND RECEIVING ONLY SI.OO PER DAY, WAGES IN THIS
COUNTRY ARE THE HIGHEST IN ITS HISTORY. BUSINESS IS GOOD IN
THE CITIES AND COTTON SELLING FOR 35c A POUND IN THE COUNTRY.
The President asks the people who are not wearing the Khaki or the Navy
Blue to LEND the National Treasury $6,000,000,000 at 4 1-4 PER CENT INTEREST
to “Carry On” the war and help bring it to a VICTORIOUS conclusion.
This money will nearly all be SPENT HERE AT HOME—it will go right
back to the wage earner, the manufacturer and the farmer in payment for war supplies.
The cause of which we are fighting is the DEFENSE of our NATIONAL
HONOR and the preservation of the DEMOCRACY of this REPUBLIC.
EVERY man and EVERY woman must do their FULL part.
The money MUST be raised.
We MUST go “OVER THE TOP” as WILLINGLY and as COURAGEOUSLY
as OUR BOYS are going through the HINDENBURG LINE.
A GOVERNMENT bond is a FIRST MORTGAGE on the United States and there is
NO BETTER SECURITY IN THE WORL D.
Atlanta’s quota is $14,000,000,
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The future is SURE to bring us ALL—PEACE and HAPPINESS.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918.
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‘Get a New “Lift for Soldier
§ S. .
ign for Your Automobile
¢ D ON'T you want & new ride-the-soldier sign for your au
? tomobile?
" It’s a hard life in the ranks, boys. And the thing to
| remember is, the men in uniform are going through it for you.
¢ Don’'t forget to be hospitable, generous and thoughtful of them.
Give them a lift in your automobile when you see them trudg
ing the streets. You couldn’t do less. And maybe you couldn’t
do anything better toward making them think vou're a pretty
good fellow, and you and others like you might be worth fight
. ing for.
; Give them a lift!
And to let them know your heart is in the right place, stick
on the windshield of your car one of the transparent signs that
you may get free of cost at the office of The (Georgian and The
Sunday American, No. 20 East Alabama street
Thousands of these signs were given away two months ago,
and now have become weatherbeaten and seratched. Anybody
may have a new one, if he calls at The Georgian office. And
anybody who hasn’t one already may be supplied at the same
. place. Just ask for Mr, Stanton, on the first floor, and remem
ber what the sign says:
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’ [t’s a neat, attractive sign, and your car will look the bet
ter for it. Also you will feel better because of it.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—A new, re-
Juvenated Rusgia, which will take its
place in the council of nations, now is
being organized. Official advices to the
Russian Embassy vesterday empha
sized that the Russian provisional gov
ernment, organized by the national con
vention held at Ufa from September 8
to 23, adopted a policy of anti-Bolshe
vism and took steps to combine in the
new government all of the temporary
governments that have been fighting the
'rotzky-Lenine alliance
Represented 4t the conference as sub
seribing to its doetrine were the Social
ist revolutionists, Social Democrats, Soe
cialist Labor party .Constitutional Dem
ocrats, the Social Democratic organiza
tion and the Association for the Bebirth
of Russia The ney provisional gov
ernment as now constituted is adminis
tered by Nicholas D. Avksentieff, Nich
olag 1. Astroaff Lieutenant General
Vassili G. Boldyreff, Peter V. Volgo
dasky and Nicholas V. Tchaikovsky.
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